Recommended Reading List – Jewish Spirituality and Meditation

אלתר, רבי יהודה לייב מגור

The Language of Truth: the Torah commentary of the Sefat Emet: Rabbi Yehudah Leib Alter of Ger / translated and interpreted by Arthur Green. Hebrew texts prepared by Shai Gluskin. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1998.

רבי משה קורדוברו

תומר דבורה

The Palm Tree of Deborah. Translated from the Hebrew with an introd. and notes by Louis Jacobs. London : Vallentine, Mitchell, 1960.

The Palm Tree of Devorah. Moshe Cordovero. Translated and annotated by Moshe Miller. Southfield, MI: Targum Press ; Spring Valley, N.Y. : distributed by Feldheim Publishers, 1993.

רב דב בער– המגיד ממזריטש

צוואת הריב"ש

Tzava’at HaRivash. Trans. and annotated by Jacob Immanuel Schochet. New York: Kehot, 1998. [available online at http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/145202/jewish/Tzavaat-Harivash.htm]

Speaking Torah: Spiritual Teachings from around the Maggid’s Table, Arthur Green, with Ebn Leader, Ariel Evan Mayse and Or N. Rose, Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013

הרב מנחם נחום מצ'רנוביל

מאור עינים

הנהגות ישרות

Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl: Upright Practices, The Light of the Eyes. Trans. Arthur Green. Paulist Press, 1982.

רבי נחמן מברסלב

ליקוטי מוהר"ן

סיפורי מעשיות

חיי מוהר"ן

שיחות הר"ן

Likutey Moharan multi-volume translation by the Breslov Research Institute.

Nahman of Bratslav: The Tales. Trans. Arnold Band. Paulist Press, 1978.

Rabbi Nachman’s Stories. Trans. Aryeh Kaplan. Breslov Research Institute, 1985.

Rabbi Nachman’s Wisdom. Nathan of Breslov. Trans Aryeh Kaplan. Breslov Research Inst., 1984

הרב קלונימוס קלמיש שפירא, האדמו"ר מפיאסצנה

אש קודש , ירושלים תש"ך

בני מחשבה טובה, תל אביב תשל"ג

דרך המלך, ירושלים תשנ"א

הכשרת האברכים, ירושלים תשכ"ב

חובת התלמידים, תל אביב תשנ"ב

מבוא השערים, ירושלים תשכ"ב

צו וזרוז, ירושלים תשכ"ב

שלוש דרשות, תל אביב תשמ"ה

Shapira, Kalonymus, Conscious Community, translated by Andrea Cohen-Kiener. Northvale, New Jersey, Jason Aronson, 1999. [בני מחשבה טוב]

Shapira, Kalonymus. Experiencing the Divine: A Practical Jewish Guide. translated by Yaacov Dovid Shulman [available online at http://www.experiencing-the-divine.com/index.html] [בני מחשבה טוב]

Shapira, Kalonymus, To Heal The Soul, translated by Yehoshua Starett, Northvale New Jersey, Jason Aronson, 1995. [צו וזרוז]

Shapira, Kalonymus, A Student's Obligation. translated by Micha Odenheimer, Northvale, New Jersey, Jason Aronson, 1991. [חובת התלמידי]

Shapira, Kalonymus, Sacred Fire: Torah from the Years of Fury,1939-1942, translated by J. Hershy Worch. Northvale, New Jersey, Jason Aronson, 2000. [אש קודש]

Shapira, Kalonymus. Jewish Spiritual Growth: A Step-by-Step Guide by a Hasidic Master. translated by Yaacov Shulman. Dot Letter Word, 2016. [הכשרת האברכים]

מדיטציית מיינדפולנס יהודי

Lew, Alan. Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life. Little, Brown and Company, 2005

Roth, Jeff. Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life: Awakening Your Heart, Connecting with God. Jewish Lights Publishing, 2009.

Roth, Jeff. Me, Myself and God: A Theology of Mindfulness. Jewish Lights, 2016.

Slater, Jonathan. Mindful Jewish Living: Compassionate Practice. Aviv Press, 2007.

Slater, Jonathan. A Partner in Holiness—2-Volume Set: Deepening Mindfulness, Practicing Compassion and Enriching Our Lives through the Wisdom of R. Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev's Kedushat Levi. Jewish Lights, 2014.

Good Noticing! 100 Teachings in Jewish Mindfulness Inspired by Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg. Ed. Zena Schulman.

תרגול רוחני במדיטצייה ויהדות

Buxbaum, Yitzhak. Jewish Spiritual Practices. Jason Aronson, 1999.

Fine, Lawrence ed. Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2001.

Kaplan, Aryeh. Jewish Meditation. Schocken, 1995.

Kaplan, Aryeh. Meditation and the Bible. Red Wheel/Weiser, 1978.

Kaplan, Aryeh. Meditation and Kabbalah. Jason Aronson, 1995.

Michaelson, Jay. God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice. Jewish Lights Publishing, 2006.

Gold, Shefa. The Magic of Hebrew Chant: Healing the Spirit, Transforming the Mind, Deepening Love. Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013.

Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman. A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Practice. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013

Verman, Mark. The History and Varieties of Jewish Meditation. Jason Aronson, 1996.

מחשבה ותאולוגיה יהודית, עכשווית

Gold, Shefa. Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land. 2006

Green, Arthur. Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow. Jewish Lights Publishing, 2004.

Green, Arthur. Radical Judaism: Re-Thinking God and Tradition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010

Green, Arthur. Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology. Jewish Lights Publishing, 2003.

Heschel, Abraham Joshua. The Sabbath. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005. [and everything else by Heschel]

Lew, Alan. This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation. Little, Brown and Company, 2003.

Michaelson, Jay. Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism. Trumpeter, 2009.

Peltz Weinberg, Sheila. Surprisingly Happy: An Atypical Religious Memoir. 2010

Ruttenberg, Danya. Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion. 2008.

Shapiro, Rami. Minyan: Ten Principles for Living a Life of Integrity. Harmony/Bell Tower, 1997.

שיחות על מדיטצייה יהודית, תרגול מודרך, שיעורי תורה ומאמרים

שיחות של ג'יימס על מדיטצייה ופודקסטים אחרים, מאמרים, צאנטינג ומקורות:

http://orhalev.org/teachings/

מיינדפולנס שבועי– מבוסס על שיעורי תורה עם IJS

http://www.jewishspirituality.org/resources/textstudy5775/

Awakened Heart Project http://www.awakenedheartproject.org/

ארגוני רוחניות יהודית ומרכזי למידה ותרגול

Or HaLev: Center for Jewish Spirituality and Meditation http://orhalev.org/ (James’ Organization)

Awakened Heart Project http://www.awakenedheartproject.org/

Institute for Jewish Spirituality http://www.ijs-online.org/

HaMakom UK https://www.facebook.com/groups/203770319612/

NYU Mindfulness Project www.nyu.edu/spiritual.life

The Center for Jewish Mindfulness • Chicago www.jewishmindfulness.net

Orot: Center for New Jewish Learning, Chicago http://www.orotcenter.org/

Isabella Freedman www.isabellafreedman.org

Makom: The Center for Meditation and Spirituality, Manhattan JCC http://www.jccmanhattan.org/makom-meditation

Jewish Meditation Center of Brooklyn www.jmcbrooklyn.org

מקורות התפילה היהודית

Institute for Jewish Spirituality: Prayer Project http://www.jewishspirituality.org/our-programs/emerging-programs/the-prayer-project/

DLTI: The Davvenen' Leadership Training Institute http://dlti.org/

European Academy for Jewish Liturgy http://www.eajl.org/

Heschel, Abraham Joshua.

Quest for God: Studies in Prayer and Symbolism. Crossroad Publishing, 1984.

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, The Gates of Prayer: Twelve Talks on Davvenology

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer. 2012

Mike Commins. Making Prayer Real (book and website) http://www.makingprayerreal.com/

Shefa Gold chants and teachings http://www.rabbishefagold.com/